July

Lord Sandy Trees hosted an evening reception at the House of Lords for the new joint vet school between Harper Adams and Keele University this week.

Dr Helen Millward writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele University will host an evening to explore the benefits that poetry can provide for cancer patients later this month.

An environmental professor praised Keele for its commitment to sustainability as she was awarded an honorary degree this month.

The founder of a scheme which helps asylum seekers and forced migrants to get a university education has praised Keele’s contribution in making the scheme a success.

Businessman Ralph Findlay, former Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council at Keele, has received an honorary degree for his outstanding contribution to the University.

Dr Mark Eccleston-Turner writes for The Conversation UK.

The newest member of Keele University’s College of Fellows has spoken of her pride at being inducted into its ranks.

Dr Barry Ryan writes for The Conversation UK.

An Oscar-winning writer and actor has been commended with an honorary degree from Keele University for her outstanding work to benefit the deaf community.

A campaigner who has worked tirelessly to promote social justice and inclusion for minority groups has said she is “humbled” to receive an honorary degree from Keele University.

A Keele University alumnus returned to campus this week after nearly 50 years since graduating to receive an honorary degree for his entrepreneurial success in the gaming industry.

A lecturer from Keele’s School of Computing and Mathematics was invited to the prestigious Royal Institution to share his expertise on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) recently.

Higher Horizons, a government-funded scheme that uses innovative outreach sessions to encourage young people to progress to higher education, has secured funds to extend the programme until August 2021.

An honorary graduate who has been commended at Keele’s 2019 graduation ceremonies has spoken highly of the University’s role in shaping his own success.

Keele University’s graduation celebrations got off to a flying start this week with the announcement of our Student of the Year 2019.

Students from Keele University’s School of Chemical and Physical Sciences recently visited the University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology Centre and Anthropological Research Facility, also known as a body farm, in Knoxville.

Keele University has been judged as a “First Class” institution in an assessment of its environmental and ethical impact.

Work being led by researchers at Harper Adams University and Keele University is helping to safeguard global food crops against devastation by pests.

Keele University has been ranked among the Top 100 universities in Europe in the Times Higher Education Europe Teaching Rankings 2019.

Students at Keele University have generously donated 2.5 tonnes of food and household goods to the Newcastle-Staffs food bank as part of the 2019 Great Donate scheme.

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has awarded new funding to the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West Midlands.

An elusive organic material has been detected in our region of space by a group of researchers, after first being discovered almost 100 years ago.

Keele University has achieved a record number of nominations for the prestigious Green Gown Awards which celebrate sustainability in higher education.

Keele has been ranked in the Top 10 universities in the UK to study pharmacy and pharmacology in the Guardian University Guide 2020.

Professor Toby Bruce writes for The Conversation UK.

Keele has been ranked in the Top 3 universities in England to study politics in the Guardian University Guide 2020 behind only Cambridge and Oxford.

Dr Fraser Philp writes for The Conversation UK.

Eight Keele subjects have been ranked in the UK Top 10 for overall student satisfaction in the 2019 National Student Survey (NSS).

Some of Britain’s most ancient trees could be thousands of years younger than previously thought, according to new Keele research.

Dr Janet Hoole writes for The Conversation UK.

Jon Herbert, Keele University; Andrew Wroe, University of Kent, and Trevor McCrisken, University of Warwick write for The Conversation UK.

Keele University’s medicine degree programme has been ranked second in England in the Guardian University Guide 2020, behind only Oxford and ahead of Cambridge.

Keele’s Professor Helen Parr has received the prestigious 2019 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History and also the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2019 for her book Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper.

Female scientists from Keele University have formed a Stoke-on-Trent branch of ‘Soapbox Science’, an international initiative that aims to encourage young women to consider a career in science.